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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I always like sharing this apocryphal story about Michael Dell. So Michael Dell went to the same high school I did, and the rumor goes that when he was there, a bitchy English teacher once told him he would never amount to anything.

Well years pass and he creates the computer company we know today. He returns to the school district and offers to donate computers to all their schools, from elementary thru high school. He only had one condition, fire the bitchy teacher who insulted him all those years ago.

The school district never confirmed it, but one year that teacher didn't return, and sure enough, every school in the district suddenly got brand new Dell computers.